AHS Celebrates 70 Years of Advancing Vertical Flight Technologies

Anaheim, February 24, 2014 – AHS International, the world’s premier professional vertical flight technical society, is celebrating 70years of advancing the state of the art of rotary wing technology and promoting its application around the globe.

In 1943 – before a single helicopter was operational in the United States – a group of engineers and managers banded together with military and civilian operators, mechanics, pilots and enthusiasts to form the American Helicopter Society. Today, AHS International has 6,500 members in more than 40 countries.